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Credit to Author: Carolyn Soltau| Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 01:00:53 +0000

Re: Affordable rental housing under threat as Vancouver looks to densify with Broadway Plan John Mackie’s article exposes the underlying stupidity of a city drunk on development — tearing down very liveable and affordable rentals with greenswards, to be replaced with cubbyhole apartments that are unaffordable and devoid of surrounding nature. Why are we in […]

Credit to Author: Province Opinion| Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2022 01:00:10 +0000

Re: Ian Mulgrew: B.C.’s broken policing system a boondoggle On behalf of our 6,500 RCMP members in B.C., we are responding to Ian Mulgrew’s March 27 column, “B.C.’s broken policing system a boondoggle”. As a fact-based organization, the National Police Federation conducts regular research across the country through Pollara Strategic Insights, Statistics Canada, government reports […]

Credit to Author: Province Opinion| Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 01:00:22 +0000

Re: Pete McMartin: Gas sky high? Welcome to your option — the bus A retired transit driver describes a typical day behind the wheel. 4:30 a.m.: Rise for 5:40 a.m. start, shower, shave, etc. Coffee and toast. 5:37 a.m.: Clock in and head out to perform pre-trip bus inspection in dark yard. Two degrees, rainy. […]

Credit to Author: Carolyn Soltau| Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2022 01:00:17 +0000

Re: Jean Swanson: Mansion tax for top one-per-cent property owners would be fairer for the rest of us Jean Swanson’s heart is in the right place, and one could agree with her in principle — progressive taxation is just that, progressive. Far be it for me to defend the uber-rich, but a $70-million home pays […]

Credit to Author: Carolyn Soltau| Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 01:00:51 +0000

Re: Vaughn Palmer: Museum ‘modernization’ lacks plans or timeline It is truly irritating to read Vaughn Palmer’s flip dismissal of plans for the Royal B.C. Museum, as “half baked”, given that it’s a topic that I daresay he, along with most people in the province including myself, can know very little about. The debate over […]

Credit to Author: Carolyn Soltau| Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 01:00:35 +0000

Re: Compel RCMP to testify in N.S. inquiry, experts urge; Officers don’t want to relive mass shooting In the March 7 edition of the National Post, Michael MacDonald wrote about the RCMP union’s attempt to prevent 18 of its members from potentially being called to testify, under oath, to the Mass Casualty Commission in Nova […]